# The Book of Boba Fett **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [November 1, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653 "2021-11-01T20:36:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/401 "2022-02-04T20:01:30Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > ’m betting an animated version of Timothy Zahn’s Heirs of Empire series would be a big hit on Disney+. I’d sure as fuck watch it. I liked his having lightsabers as basically Kzinti Variable Swords. I find the whole 'kyber crystal" thing and all the mythology surrounding it utterly idiotic. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/402 "2022-02-04T20:44:07Z")
Oh, I didn’t know that. I just know Thrawn from the Zahn books. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/403 "2022-02-04T20:46:19Z")
_Rebels_ is worth checking out, especially before the _Ahsoka_ series comes out - it sounds like that series is going to be a pretty direct follow up on _Rebels._ ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/404 "2022-02-04T20:53:47Z")
So is Clone Wars. There is a lot of filler, but the good episodes are the best SW content out there. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/405 "2022-02-04T22:36:43Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > How long until they just start putting out new Legends content? I really can’t see this happening. They want a robust continuity now, so to deviate from that (aside from the variation inherent in video games, or comedy stuff like the Lego specials) would be an unsual step. They are, instead, enjoying taking singular ideas (characters, events, locations etc) and bringing them back into canon in an adjusted context. Hence Grand Admiral Thrawn in _Rebels_. And, arguably, clone Palpatine from the Dark Empire comics in _Rise Of Skywalker_. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/406 "2022-02-04T23:08:48Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > So is Clone Wars. There is a lot of filler, but the good episodes are the best SW content out there. Disney+ has some “playlists” that pull out specific subsets of Clone Wars. I highly recommend watching those. And the whole Rebels series is worth watching. It starts slow, but it pays off. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/407 "2022-02-05T00:44:39Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > The flashback of his memory of Order 66 showed the clone troopers advancing on him, just before it ended; I suspect that Grogu used the Force to kill all of them (remember that he also used a Force Choke on Cara Dune at one point). I’m now imagining next week’s episode opening with a recreation of the scene from Revenge of the Sith where Yoda and Obi-Wan find the Younglings slain… and sitting off to the side, surrounded by the scorched bodies of Clone Troopers, is Grogu smiling and waving with a spark of lightning between his fingers. That’s when they decide he’s too dangerous for his own good, so they give him some kind of Jedi mind wipe and hand him over to the Niktos. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/408 "2022-02-05T00:47:06Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m now imagining next week’s episode opening with a recreation of the scene from Revenge of the Sith where Yoda and Obi-Wan find the Younglings slain… and sitting off to the side, surrounded by the scorched bodies of Clone Troopers, is Grogu smiling and waving with a spark of lightning between his fingers. It was Anakin who slaughtered the Younglins though. Which doesn’t track with what they showed last week, but I assume Grogu was not with the others. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/409 "2022-02-05T00:50:40Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Which doesn’t track with what they showed last week, but I assume Grogu was not with the others. Anakin did march into the Jedi Temple with a bunch of clone troopers; it’s possible that the three Jedi who died protecting Grogu were elsewhere with him in the Temple, rather than with the younglings when Anakin went after them. As the “Order 66 scene” in RotS also shows clone troopers turning on the Jedi on several other planets, the Grogu scene might not have been on Coruscant at all. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/410 "2022-02-05T01:41:45Z")
Is Yoda’s species as littpe-known and mysterious “in-universe” as it is for the audience? Meaning, _we_ don’t know the name of his species or home planet or anything, but would, for example, Mace Windu have known? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/411 "2022-02-05T01:56:01Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > the Grogu scene might not have been on Coruscant at all. In that scene we can see two doors with a symbol on them, that has been established in other media as being part of the Coruscant Jedi Temple, possibly the living quarters. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/412 "2022-02-05T02:02:03Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > He’s certainly more adept at using the Force than Luke ever was in the OT, and he was able to communicate telepathically with Ahsoka well enough to tell her his name, so he might actually be more intelligent than we know but not able to express it to non-Force-sensitives. Luke does say it’s more like Grogu is remembering what he can do rather than being trained. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/413 "2022-02-05T03:17:31Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Is Yoda’s species as littpe-known and mysterious “in-universe” as it is for the audience? Luke certainly doesn’t seem to know, given his asking Grogu if he remembers anyone who talked the same way Yoda did. It could be that there are very few of them because they’re so long-lived and probably have a long reproductive cycle, or perhaps it’s a closely guarded secret since their innate Force powers make them a target, or maybe they were mostly wiped out in the last Sith war and the name of the species is just a footnote in the Jedi archive. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/414 "2022-02-05T03:22:18Z")
Too bad there were no Yoda Darts for an old fry cook to identify. (Yodas reproduce [like snails](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_dart). That’s canon now.) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/415 "2022-02-05T05:20:24Z")
I was thinking something more along the lines of Tolkien elves where a child can only be conceived once there’s an elven soul waiting to be reborn and the woman is pregnant for 108 years. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/416 "2022-02-05T08:01:34Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Anakin did march into the Jedi Temple with a bunch of clone troopers; it’s possible that the three Jedi who died protecting Grogu were elsewhere with him in the Temple, rather than with the younglings when Anakin went after them. Nitpick; he was already Darth Vader by that point, not Anakin. He just hadn’t undergone his involuntary plastic surgery yet. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/417 "2022-02-05T12:56:01Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Is Yoda’s species as littpe-known and mysterious “in-universe” as it is for the audience? Meaning, _we_ don’t know the name of his species or home planet or anything, but would, for example, Mace Windu have known? It’s not clear, but that appears to be the case. A big part of Season 1 of The Mandalorian was that no one seemed to know what the hell Grogu was. Just finding out he was a Jedi was a big step forward. We haven’t seen that with any of the other alien species common in the SW universe. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/418 "2022-02-05T14:24:42Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Plus, you know, they were literally under the influence of mind-controlling computer chips in their brains, so slaughter of the innocent on top of that, I guess? So if your attacker is being mind-controlled, you’re morally required to submit meekly instead of defending yourself? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/419 "2022-02-05T14:37:55Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > So if your attacker is being mind-controlled, you’re morally required to submit meekly instead of defending yourself? I suspect the average Jedi has better non-lethal options than the typical non-Jedi. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/420 "2022-02-05T14:44:55Z")
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